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punta

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feminine noun

⇒ la punta de los dedosthe fingertips, the tips of one's fingers ⇒ colocad la punta del pie hacia arribapoint your toes upwards ⇒ vivimos en la otra punta de Barcelonawe live on the other side of Barcelona ⇒ se sentó en la otra punta de la mesashe sat at the other end of the table

de punta a cabo o de punta a puntafrom one end to the other ⇒ nos recorrimos la ciudad de punta a puntawe went from one end of the city to the other ⇒ me leí el periódico de punta a caboI read the paper from cover to cover

de punta ⇒ tenía todo el pelo de puntaher hair was all on end ⇒ las tijeras le cayeron de punta en el piethe scissors fell point down o point first on his foot ⇒ unos zapatos de puntaa pair of pointed shoes

idiom: a punta de (Latin American, informal) ⇒ salió adelante a punta de esfuerzohe got ahead by sheer effort o by dint of hard work ⇒ va a entender a punta de patadashe has to have sense beaten into him ⇒ vive a punta de remedioshe lives on medicines

idiom: ir de punta en blancoto be all dressed up, be dressed up to the nines

idiom: ponerse de punta en blancoto get all dressed up

idiom: poner a algn los pelos o el vello de puntato make sb's hair stand on end ⇒ se me ponen los pelos de punta de pensar en el miedo que pasamosmy hair stands on end when I think of how scared we were ⇒ esas imágenes me pusieron el vello de puntathose images were really spine-chilling, those images made my hair stand on end

idiom: estar hasta la punta de los pelos con o de algn (informal)to be fed up to the back teeth with sb (inf)